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City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

Ele giggled, imagining the raccoons. She thought the creatures were cute anyway, even if the did sometimes scare her if she came across one in a dark alley at night.

"I do have to say though, it is really nice to take a boat out on the bay and suddenly see dolphins. Oh!"

Ele exclaimed, sitting up straighter and turning as much as she could to see Tyler,

"One time, my friends and I went out for a yacht party, and we saw a pod of humpback whales! And don't even get me started on the sea lions! They're so smelly, but when they have a good day, they're so funny!

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"Being out here is like a different world."

Ele admitted, walking over to her side of the car and opening the door. She looked over the top of the car to Tyler and nodded,

"I'm so excited to share those pictures! I mean, we have some pretty cool birds in San Francisco, but not eagles..."

Ele couldn't help but giggle as she slipped into the car and began buckling her harness,

"Unless you decide that random parakeets rank up there with eagles!"

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

As they drove, Ele kept her eyes up on the clear blue sky, tracking every bird to see if it was an eagle. When Tyler pulled off the road and jumped out of the car, Ele did the same. She scrambled to undo her harness before jumping out of the car and pulling out her phone,

"Oh my gosh!"

She breathed, standing next to Tyler as she raised her phone and began taking pictures,

"They're beautiful!"

Ele couldn't stop taking pictures, wanting to capture every moment of the mated pair above them. When she felt like she had enough pictures, Ele just stood and watched the beautiful eagles.

Eventually, the pair began looking around, and Ele pulled out her phone again just in time to capture the pair taking off into the sky. When they were out of view, Ele squealed and jumped around happily.

"I saw eagles!"

She cheered, doing a little happy dance and holding her phone to her chest like a precious treasure, turning to Tyler, Ele's eyes were bright and her cheeks were pink with happiness,

"I can't believe I saw eagles! Thank you!"

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"Really?"

Ele asked excitedly, immediately turning her head to look out the window and examine the sky for the eagles,

"I've never seen one in the wild! That would be so cool!"

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"Well the cheaper place, you said there were two places in the casino, one that was formal and the other normal. I use cheap as opposed to formal."

Ele explained as she settled back in for the rest of the drive.

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"Don't tempt me! If you keep up those kinds of promises I'll become a desperate woman!"

Ele laughed, she was enjoying herself right now. They were having fun, a light-hearted conversation, and it was a beautiful drive just to top it all off.

"How much farther to the casino? I'm gonna have to hunt down that cheap place, all this food talk has made me hungry!"

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"You're making me hungry!"

Ele groaned, holding her stomach and looking up,

"Now I'm craving a really good spicy chicken masala and some fresh naan bread!"

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"Oh I love lavender!"

Ele said happily, back at her apartment she had managed to grow a little bush on her patio and used the blossoms all over her room to give it a relaxing and fresh fragrance. Sometimes, if she collected enough blossoms, Ele would distill them down into her own lavender oil for baths or to wear.

"My favorite weird flavor is Vietnamese coffee with frosted almonds and peanut butter curry. It's so weird, but so good!"

She admitted bashfully, she normally didn't talk about anything personal with people, so the fact that Ele was opening up to Tyler even with things so trivial as flowers and ice cream was a big deal for her.

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

"That does sound wonderful, it kind of reminds me of San Francisco."

Ele said, thinking of her home fondly. It had changed a lot while she had lived there, but at its core it was the same funky place that made her smile.

"You can walk almost anywhere, but you can also take historic trolleys, or bikes too! And the Wharf is so cool because you can go to the chocolate factory, or watch saltwater taffy be made... And if you like weird ice cream there's a fantastic place near Little Italy that sells organic ice cream made with infused flavors like rose, lavender, or anything you can think of."

City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

Ele shrugged,

"This was all just information I heard over the intercom as we were landing in the airport. The alight attendant just rattled off a bunch of facts, forgive me if my memory is fuzzy. I was too busy looking at my phone."